SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 9, 2007—
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:
CY) today announced that its
PSoC(R) CapSense enables the touch sensing interface inside multiple
HP Compaq Notebook PC models. The Cypress CapSense solution not only
provides the interface for a smooth, glitch-free user experience, but
it also controls LED indicator lights on the notebooks, saving board
space and reducing costs.

"We are pleased to provide the CapSense solution to HP, a world
leader in notebook computers," said Carl Brasek, business unit
director for Cypress's CapSense products. "This usage model highlights
one of the CapSense customer benefits -- the ability to perform
additional functions on top of capacitive sensing."

"Given HP's focus on delivering easy-to-use and reliable notebook
PCs to our business customers, HP is pleased to integrate the CapSense
solution, which provides an excellent user experience and is less
prone to every day wear and tear than exposed buttons," said Carol
Hess-Nickels, director of worldwide business notebook marketing in the
Personal Systems Group at HP. "In addition, the CapSense solution
enhances the sleek design and superb functionality we're providing to
customers."

About CapSense

A single CapSense device can replace dozens of mechanical switches
and controls with a simple, touch-sensitive interface. CapSense-based
"button" and "slider" controls are more reliable than their mechanical
counterparts because they are not prone to the environmental
wear-and-tear that affects exposed buttons and switches. Cypress has
garnered well over 100 CapSense design wins worldwide in applications
that include mobile handsets, portable media players, white goods,
computers, printers and automotive, among others.

Capacitive sensing is fast becoming the solution of choice for
front-panel display and media control applications. Increased
durability, decreased bill of materials (BOM) and a clean, minimalist
appearance make this elegant interface attractive to a wide range of
designs. With Cypress's CapSense interface, a finger on the interface
forms an electrical connection with embedded sensors, which work with
the PSoC device to translate data about the finger's presence into
various system control functions. The sensor itself is only a copper
pad on the PCB, not an actual component. All of the circuitry for
controlling the sensor is inside the PSoC device.

Cypress's CapSense solution offers system designers numerous
advantages over capacitive sensing products built around modules and
sub-assemblies, including increased flexibility, reduced board space
and lower cost. Because of the unique PSoC architecture, designers can
easily integrate multiple functions (e.g., LED drivers and LCD
displays), in addition to capacitive sensing. The PSoC CapSense
solution also delivers benefits such as easy communications using
either I2C, SPI or USB interfaces, the ability to implement both
trackpad (x-y matrix) and linear slider applications with the same
device, and the ability to make quick design changes using the
flash-based PSoC architecture. In addition, users can complete
CapSense designs quickly and easily using pre-configured and verified
"user modules" within Cypress's PSoC Designer(TM) 4.4 Integrated
Design Environment (IDE). Learn more about CapSense online at
www.cypress.com/capsense.

About the PSoC Family

PSoC devices are configurable mixed signal arrays that integrate a
fast 8-bit microcontroller with many peripheral functions typically
found in an embedded design. PSoC devices provide the advantages of an
ASIC without the ASIC NRE or turn-around time. A single PSoC device
can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions with a
microcontroller, saving customers design time, board space and power
consumption. Customers can save from 5 cents to as much as $10 in
system costs. Easy to use development tools enable designers to select
configurable library elements to provide analog functions such as
amplifiers, ADCs, DACs, filters and comparators and digital functions
such as timers, counters, PWMs, SPI and UARTs. The PSoC family's
analog features include rail-to-rail inputs, programmable gain
amplifiers and up to 14-bit ADCs with exceptionally low noise, input
leakage and voltage offset. PSoC devices include up to 32KB of Flash
memory, 2KB of SRAM, an 8x8 multiplier with 32-bit accumulator, power
and sleep monitoring circuits, and hardware I2C communications.

All PSoC devices are dynamically reconfigurable, enabling
designers to create new system functions on-the-fly. Designers can
achieve far greater than 100 percent utilization of the die, in many
cases, by reconfiguring the same silicon for different functions at
different times. Learn more about PSoC products at
www.cypress.com/psoc and receive free online training at
www.cypress.com/psoctraining.